During a historic gathering event, the sample head of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sank 1.6 feet (0.5 m) to the asteroid’s surface. Apparently, Bennu’s exterior is made up of loosely packed particles th… [+4202 chars]
An Earth-like planet that skims through the habitable zone around its parent star has been discovered by a new team of astronomers. Dubbed Ross 508 b, the planet is actually a super-Earth, meaning it… [+2349 chars]
If you feel like the world around you is moving fast, it is. On June 29, 2022, Earth set a record for its shortest day ever, which was 1.59 milliseconds lesser than its usual 24 hours. A similar occu… [+2267 chars]
How do galaxies evolve? How do new planets and stars form in a galaxy? These and many other such questions keep astronomers and scientists hooked to various space telescopes to get the answers and no… [+2065 chars]
Astronomers have spotted a massive buildup of plasma on the sun's eastern side. Notably, it has never been seen before. The loop of plasma is so big that even scientific terms can not describe it acc… [+1718 chars]
What comes to your mind when you hear the word crater? We all know that the surface of the Moon has lots of craters. Even our solar system was built on impacts of objects in space. Earth too has been… [+2756 chars]
Do you know that volcanic eruptions can blast plumes of water vapor into the stratosphere? According to the information provided by NASA Earth, the Hunga Tonga- Ha'apai volcano erupted on January 15 … [+3376 chars]
Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learnin… [+3326 chars]
Our nervous system is composed of billions of neurons that speak to one another through their axons and dendrites. When the human brain develops, these structures branch out in a beautifully intricat… [+3171 chars]
UNITED STATES: A geoscientist claims that our perception of Ceres has been blurry for a long time. In previous telescopic scans from Earth, Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest body in the asteroid … [+4245 chars]
The galaxy is presumed to be a normal spiral galaxy like the Milky Way before its collision and is likely to continue transforming. The newly released images also gives an insight into the galaxy's p… [+3 chars]
The Cartwheel Galaxy is 500 million light-years away, in the Sculptor constellation. Peering into the turmoil of a Cartwheel Galaxy, American Space Agency NASA's James Webb Telescope has discovered … [+2663 chars]